Quote of the Day – Bobby Jindal Edition

“No, I think that’s absolutely wrong. Two points on that: One, we have got to stop dividing the American voters. We need to go after 100 percent of the votes, not 53 percent. We need to go after every single vote.”

“And, secondly, we need to continue to show how our policies help every voter out there achieve the American dream, which is to be in the middle class, which is to be able to give their children an opportunity to be able to get a great education. … So, I absolutely reject that notion, that description. I think that’s absolutely wrong.”

Governor Bobby Jindal on Romney’s comments that he lost the election due to entitlements and freebies that Obama’s policies offer. He goes on to say:

“Governor Romney’s an honorable person that needs to be thanked for his many years of public service, but his campaign was largely about his biography and his experience, and it’s a very impressive biography and very impressive set of experiences. But time and time again, biography and experience is not enough to win an election. You have to have a vision. You have to connect your policies to the aspirations of the American people. I don’t think the campaign did that, and as a result this became a contest between personalities.

We all know that I didn’t think Romney was the best choice for the nomination. One of the things that I did admire about the man was that he showed real class most of the time. It is too bad he has decided to throw that out the window now that he has lost. That just makes me question if he ever really had it at all.

I heard over and over again from people I talked to personally and over social media, that Romney did not give them a real reason to vote for him other than he was not Obama. While that was more than enough for me, that doesn’t mean that it would be for everyone else.

Jindal is 100% correct. Here are some facts; the richest counties in the country voted for Obama. Some of the poorest counties in the country voted for Romney. Look at New Mexico and Nebraska if you don’t believe me. Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the country with very high levels of poverty. When is the last time they voted for democrat for President?

Not every poor person takes money from the government. Some are too proud or they don’t feel right about it. Some poor people vote GOP based on religious views and/or abortion. Those issues are more important to them than getting freebies.

Until the GOP stops with this nonsense they will continue in the wilderness. There are ways to talk about the entitlement culture that doesn’t insult large swaths of people. Comments such as immigrants come here to take entitlements are not helpful yet you hear things like that from some in the far right on a regular basis. You are not going to get people to understand how conservative beliefs will benefit them if they feel they are being insulted.

Governor Romney do us all a favor, go away. You gave it your best shot and came up short. Don’t take a page out of the Al Gore page book and become bitter. It will not help you let alone the GOP.

Related

SignPainterGuy and just a conservative girl are discussing. Toggle Comments

Team O spent $Millions on Spanish language TV ads telling poor Hispanics to come to America and get freebies AND opportunities to vote. They took them up on the offer.

Too many Hispanics who did / do it the right way, but know of lots of others who didn`t are too many to ignore. Jindal sounds unaware of those ads and their real effects, or willfully and incorrectly dismissive of them. Romney is right, but I agree, he can go away now, we need a REAL conservative for Pres. Romney could be great as Fed. Chair., Commerce Sec. – anything to do with finance and commerce.

Glenn Beck spoke this morning about Team O using a program of “Psych-Ops” on the public to get the weak minded, those without true morals, to fall for the socialist meme and to vote Dem. It worked ! It would be interesting to hear / read a break-down of the details of that program to develop a defense / offense against it !

Actually the ads were played here in the states. While there are ways around it, you must be in the country legally in order to collect food stamps. How easy that is depends on the state.

The citizenship issue and food stamps have no correlation to each other in this context. Nor were any illegal immigrants given citizenship rights to vote since Obama has taken office. Some have been given visas, but you cannot vote with a visa.

Demonize the programs and the dependency that they create, stop demonizing the people. As long as that continues to happen, they will continue to believe the meme that the GOP is racist and anti-immigrant and anti poor people. That is a losing strategy if I ever heard one.

Rush and Glenn both took Hispanic callers who were themselves doing it the right way AND voted for Rs, explained that the ads were played in the USA AND in Mexico (I heard also in Puerto Rico), that many in Mexico lived in squaller with no chance of improvement there but took the dems up on their offer to “come to the US, register as and vote for democrats and in exchange, they got all the goodies”. These callers knew of people or had family members who did it. (perhaps you were in Ohio campaigning when those calls came in)

Are these callers the same people who insist that in Allen West’s district there was 141% of voting, when the truth is that there was a two page ballot and that number refers to pages cast, not votes?

Or maybe they are the people who can’t fathom why in the inner inner cities that there are precincts that Romney got no votes from, but completely dismiss the precincts in the deep south that registered no votes for Obama.

A. I don’t listen to talk radio and B. that doesn’t mean they are telling the truth. Do your own research, don’t depend on social media to tell you. In many instances they are wrong.

If you want to continue to call people who take some form of entitlements immoral, that is your prerogative, but it will be the death of the republican party. As I said, the richest counties in the country went to Obama. They actually voted to see their own taxes to be raised. Some of the poorest went to Romney.

People vote for a variety of reasons, Some of the poorest communities in the country have the lowest voter turnout rates. Many of the people that take these programs don’t even bother to vote. Those are just facts and they can’t be changed. The numbers are what the numbers are.